O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself. O Christian America, you've destroyed yourself. He works with Saul, he works with David, he even works with Jeroboam when Jeroboam was splitting up and saying, "If you follow the right things, I'll bless you too." He works with our mess ups, but his purpose, that kingdom purpose, it's through all this he would be their king. They lose something by getting involved in them having a king.
So the earthly government, in Hosea, he gives us a prophecy that's very important for us to understand that this givenness of a king, this given, this human government is a rebuke. He gives it to us, but he gives it to us as a rebuke. Here's this Hosea chapter 13, verse 9.